Degree

MA, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University; PhD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, The University of Iowa

Teaching Experience

Yonsei University, College of Education, 2010-2011.
Yonsei University, Graduate School of International Education, 2010-2011.
Seoul National University of Education, Graduate School of Education, 2011.

Specialties

Racial and ethnic identity development; social and cultural foundations of education; social justice education; anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy; Korean globalization; race and education; high needs schools; qualitative research methods

Palmer, J. D. (2007). Who is the authentic Korean American? Korean-born Korean American high school students' negotiations of ascribed and achieved identities. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 6(4), 277-298.

Palmer, J. D. (2006). Negotiating the indistinct: Reflections of a Korean adopted American working with Korean born, Korean Americans. Qualitative Research 6(4), 473-495.

Palmer, J. D., & Jang, E. (2005).Korean born, Korean American high school students' entry into understanding race and racism through social interactions and conversations. Race Ethnicity and Education, 8(3), 297-317.

Palmer, J. D., & Cho, Y.H. (2012). Review of the book The intimate university: Korean American students and the problems of segregation by Nancy Abelmann (Duke University Press, 2009). Educational Review.

Also Known As, an adult Korean and international adoptee group, member, 1999-present.

Distinctions

American Educational Research Association Spencer Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000; AERA, SIG, Research on the Education of Asian Pacific American, program chair and secretary; The Holmes Partnership, scholar